A few weeks ago, Mark OâMeara retired from professional golf. A 16-time winner on the PGA Tour, the 67-year-old OâMeara played his final tournament at Pebble Beach where he was paired with Stouder for two rounds. That tournament pairs players on the PGA Tour Champions with junior players from First Tee. Hannah Stouder, as a… Continue reading →
In case you missed it⊠here is everything you need to know from this past week! Catch up on this week’s local golf news: Lincoln and Twelve Bridges high schools perform well at league 18-hole tournaments Lincoln High School girlsâ golf team members played in their first 18-hole Foothill Valley League tournament of the season… Continue reading →
The week starting Monday, September 20 is big for Ethan Lu. Lu is starting his freshman year of college as a biochemistry major at UC Davis. He is also representing First Tee â Greater Sacramento in a PGA Tour Champions event, the 2021 PURE Insurance Championship Impacting The First Tee, on the Monterey Peninsula. Lu,… Continue reading →
Ellie Sand got a close-up look of the PURE Insurance Championship Impacting The First Tee when her older sister, Emma Sand, was selected and played in the annual PGA Tour Champions event on the Monterey Peninsula in 2017. Ellie Sand remembers telling herself at the time that this is something she wanted to strive to… Continue reading →
Itâs been a very good year of golf for Nikki Chindavong. âYes, definitely. This year, a lot has happened,â said Chindavong, a Fairfield resident, and a member of First Tee â Greater Sacramento for the last eight years. In May, she tied for individual medalist honors with her teammate at Rodriguez High School of Cordelia,… Continue reading →